A true Bavarian wheat yeast, sixty percent wheat malt, and German hops make Santa Fe Hefeweizen Beer as true to the style as any American rendition can be. German Hefeweizen, with its hints of banana and clove, its delectable, spicy, hops, and its pale golden color, is becoming increasingly popular in America’s craft brewing world, and with good reason: hefeweizens are both light enough to please light beer drinkers, and complex enough to please true micro-brew connoisseurs. To mimic a classic German Hefeweizen, after pouring your Santa Fe Hefeweizen into a glass, swirl the last few drops in the bottle to loosen the yeast from the bottom, then pour the yeast over the top of your beer.

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Poured a golden honey color infused with a haze. Smelled of fresh yeast and dusty hay. The taste was similar to the smell, yeast, wheaty biscuit and wet grain, not complicated, very straightforward. Good medio-light body with a crispness brought on by the carbonation.

Hazy and golden in color with a fair white head. Smell is of slight citrus, some tin, maybe a hint of zest. Taste is pretty much the same. The feel is thin and crisp and it's not a hard drinker. I'm not a huge fan of the style, but it's true enough to it, just nothing that stands out about the rest.

After opening and pouring, the foam was white wheat in color, and smooth. The color was gold with orange highlights. It had a hops/wheat balance aroma overtone with hints of orange peel. Its taste had a dominate hops and wheat balance with a light malted barley undertone with hints of orange peel. Mouthfeel - light-bodied and crisp. Drinkability - this is a nice crisp beer that would be good for the summer time due to the hints of orange peel, unfortunatly its winter time. Not too bad of a session.

Yet another stop on the Leaving Falls Church uber-bender express. It pours a pretty clear pale straw topped by a thick white froth. The nose comprises wheat, corn, banana, light clove, and a partial stick o' bubble gum. The taste is similar, with a bit o' coriander and orange peel added in, but the bubblegum comes in again at the end. Odd. The body is fairly light, with a light moderate carbonation and a fluid feel. Overall, this is a decent hefe, but not one I would recommend in high esteem.

Smell - Sweet banana malt. Thin and fruity. Smells like an actual hefe and not one of those American wheat beers they call hefes sometimes.

Taste - Wow. An honest to god hefeweizen. Weihenstephan would be proud. Taste very much like the godfather of hefe. The only main difference is the...

Mouthfeel - Head dissipates quickly. The body carbonation suffers a bit as a result. It's still light and enjoyable and really doesn't really isn't that much of an issue. But when you're rating in style, ever peculiarity of a style is scrutinized with a magnifying glass. While enjoyable, it doesn't stack up.

Overall Drinkability - Not bad at all. If only for the carbonation and retention, this would be a pretty legit hefe.

A: even unfiltered haze golden color and a thick but quickly diminishing light white head.S: has a banana, citrus, and a vanilla smell with an additional pine aroma sneaking in the backT: orange flavor at first followed quickly by banana then a sour kick added by the yeast and a bitter aftertaste complex and tasty.M/D: light bodied a little flat in the feel. The drinkability is good but I would recommend this one as something to sip and enjoy with an orange slice garnish.

Pours a clear pale yellow amber; yeast sticks mostly to the bottom of the bottle. Malty with some spicy notes but not much of the traditional German estery flavors. Light body. Slight bitterness. Nice carbonation.

While in Arizona I was looking for offerings from this brewery and only came across this one...not my choice since I was looking for the pale ale. Oh well, here goes.

Much lighter in color than typical for the style and very clear. The color of your pee after four or five beers. Sudsy bubbles muddle about the top of the beer but never really coalesce into a cohesive head...again, like your pee after four or five beers.

The usual cast of characters approach with banana esters, clove phenols and grassy wheat scents. Nothing bad, but nothing extraordinary either. These scents do continue in the taste, but the phenols take over and throw the beer out of balance.

Despite the light body this beer manages to not be crisp, clean or refreshing. This is not a great example of the style. On my trip to the West I have had three pretty substandard hefes, but this was the worse. It's now obvious that this is not the part of the country where you want to taste a hefeweizen. Maybe there aren't enough Germans there to tell them to stop ruining their most famous style.

Poured 2/3rds into a pint, swirled the bottle, and poured the rest in. The appearance is a hazy, golden maize color with white head that dissipates fast. The aroma is a bit off - some clove and banana, but with a hint of DMS. The taste is decent, and better than the nose would insinuate - sweet banana and clove, as well as some chewy wheat. The mouthfeel is silky, and the carbonation is appropriate. Overall, a decent Hefe from Santa Fe.

Pretty solid Hefe from Santa Fe. Not overly complex but it had enough citrus notes combined with the banana esters to make it true to style. When it gets hot in Santa Fe is makes a great patio beer. Had it on tap and in the bottle. The bottle actually tasted better

A clearish beer becomes cloudy as the sediment is poured into my large Tripel Karmeliet tulip. The beer starts out almost two-fingers thick and a pale tan hue. The beer is a hazy, straw, pale amber hue. The aroma smells most predominently of clove up front with hints of apple, some grassy grain notes, as well as some tart wheat character in the finish. My wife picks up on the phenolics a bit more than I do and said it reminds here a bit of paint.

Clove flavors up front accentuate a percieved sweetness even though this beer finishes quite dry with a soft tartness. The finish also sees a lingering, cracker-like and hay-like grain quality that provides a toothsome malt quality to this beer. The texture has quite a bit of fizz to it due to a fair amount of carbonation. The body of this beer has a touch of viscousness to it, but overall is fairly light. Definitely quaffable, but as with most Hefeweizens it is not the lightest summer beer out there. This is light on the banana character, but does have a solid wheat note that works well with the clove and soft fruitiness. There is a nice spiciness here that is part of the grain and yeast character. The yeast sediment also contributes a dough-like earthiness to this brew.

This is a nice Hefeweizen, definitely one to try for those that like traditional ones. Having said that I like a bit more lushness and depth of flavor in my ideal version of the style.